Existence, uniqueness and coalescence of directed planar geodesics: proof via the increment-stationary growth process

DOI10.1214/19-AIHP1016zbMATH Open1454.60146arXiv1812.02689OpenAlexW3037562395MaRDI QIDQ2227465FDOQ2227465

Authors: Timo Seppäläinen 

Publication date: 15 February 2021

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a proof of the almost sure existence, uniqueness and coalescence of directed semi-infinite geodesics in planar growth models that is based on properties of an increment-stationary version of the growth process. The argument is developed in the context of the exponential corner growth model. It uses coupling, planar monotonicity, and properties of the stationary growth process to derive the existence of Busemann functions, which in turn control geodesics. This soft approach is in some situations an alternative to the much-applied 20-year-old arguments of C. Newman and co-authors. Along the way we derive some related results such as the distributional equality of the directed geodesic tree and its dual, originally due to L. Pimentel.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02689

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zbMATH Keywords

cocycledirected percolationgeodesiccoalescenceBusemann functioncorner growth modellast-passage percolationcompetition interface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37) Coalescent processes (60J90)

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